Unlearning prejudice
Off the Beat
India’s intergenerational caste system highlights the aversion of the Hindu system to the theory of equality and its perpetuation of social hierarchies.
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Notes from a friendlier classroom
Something to write home about
Most of all, I walk into my final year at a university that has given me so much with the knowledge that sometimes, lessons aren’t in textbooks or free solutions to problem sets on Chegg.
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Teachings from Mumbai to Berkeley
Something to write home about
I am grateful I’ve never been exposed to only one single story at any given point.
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An elegy for all the R’s I rolled
Something to write home about
I want to extend this advice to all readers: In this lockdown, watch some movies from different parts of your parents’ countries — or even your friends’.
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Suddenly unfamiliar Sundays
Something to write home about
It is strange to me, then, that shelter-in-place orders have turned every day into a Sunday on the surface but, given the current circumstances, even Sundays don’t feel like the Sundays I once knew.
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Privilege amid pandemic
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This is my plea to people across the world, and especially those in India who have the privilege to practice social distancing: Do your part.
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And the world went airborne
Something to write home about
Every day is a ping-pong game with my family back in India about whether or not I should decide to hop on a 22-hour direct flight back home because who knows if it is safe to travel?
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When women lead
Something to write home about
I am the youngest member of my family of four. For years, I wanted to do exactly what my sister did — wear her clothes, listen to her music, read her books.
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Dissent through dance
Something to write home about
“I can’t; I have practice” is my most common response every spring semester.
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The privilege to protest
Something to write home about
I want to urge student activists in Berkeley and across the U.S. to make an active, informed effort to participate in creating change.
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